Of all the humans who took affliction afterwards the Cardinals' season-opening accident to the San Francisco 49ers - including quarterback Kurt Warner, who mysteriously was misfiring; the defense, which accustomed a game-changing fourth-quarter touchdown drive; and assorted players who committed penalties - conceivably cipher accustomed added criticism than the abhorrent linemen.
Oh, and they heard about it.
Coach Ken Whisenhunt and his agents railed at them continuously endure anniversary - on the convenance field, in blur sessions and at aggregation meetings.
In Sunday's 31-17 achievement over the Jacksonville Jaguars, however, the abhorrent band adored itself. It didn't acquiesce a sack and provided acceptable aegis as Warner set an NFL single-game completion-percentage almanac (92.3) by traveling 24 of 26 for 243 yards and two touchdowns.
Forgive Whisenhunt for not accepting ever congratulatory.
"I was blessed with our abhorrent line," he said Monday, "but I anticipate I'm traveling to break mad at them. It seemed like we played a little bit bigger if I was affronted at them endure week, so I anticipate we'll try to accumulate that aforementioned mentality going."
Bring it, the abhorrent linemen say. Starting appropriate bouncer Deuce Lutui said it comes with the profession.
"You do able-bodied as an abhorrent band (if) you don't get noticed, anyway," he said. "You blend up, everybody's traveling to be on you."
Warner accepted his linemen Monday and fabricated abiding to point out that the alone time he absolutely got hit was on a bend assault that cipher could accept prevented.
"And I didn't see it, so added than that," he said, "there was absolutely just a brace of times if I had pressure. I anticipation they did a abundant job.
"But I anticipation the coaches did a acceptable job of calling some quick plays, too, and accepting the brawl out of my hands. That consistently helps an abhorrent line, instead of just continuing aback there and accepting to advance down the field."
With opposing teams acceptable continuing to focus on aggravating to shut down the Cardinals' alarming accepting leash of Larry Fitzgerald, Anquan Boldin and Steve Breaston, quick check-offs and beneath passes should alone advice the abhorrent band succeed.
It agency beneath time for penalties, gap mistakes and address errors to occur.
"We accept a accumulation that expects a lot, and we wish to play up to those expectations," starting larboard bouncer Reggie Wells said, acquainted the band of him, Lutui, centermost Lyle Sendlein and tackles Mike Gandy and Levi Brown accept started 22 after amateur together.
"We knew we could accept done bigger the aboriginal week. . . . But we've congenital some accord and accent together, and Sunday was about rebuilding that and authoritative it right. We're a accumulation that's traveling to appear aback to plan behindhand of the outcome, and I anticipate that shows what affectionate of aptitude we accept in our room."
The abhorrent band fabricated it simple for Warner on a record-setting day, he said.
"It about feels like I blanket the almanac a little bit, because I didn't absolutely accept to do a accomplished lot added than to just bandy to the accessible guy," he said. "It was affectionate of easy.
"It's acutely air-conditioned anytime there's a aboriginal time or a best in NFL history; that's a appealing appropriate accomplishment. But afresh again, it was one of those amateur area aggregate seemed to plan in my favor. . . . As abundant as it credibility to an alone thing, it's all about the team."
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